‘The wordes of a good horse to his mayster’ — seven couplets,
with rubric: ‘In illis diebus when horse coude speake’
Title(s): ‘The wordes of a good horse to his mayster’
Subjects: horses
Versification: —
two-line —
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1.Source: New York, Columbia University Library Plimpton 259, f. 11
First Lines:As a man rode faste by þe way
to him these wordes his horse did
say…
Last Lines:…which if þi selfe to se take payne
full well þi
þankes I will quite againe
Note: MS written by a hand or hands of the sixteenth century; 7 x 2 first 8
lines written as if quatrains.
Attributed Title: The wordes of a good horse to his mayster / In illis diebus when
horse coude speake